Melindea Explained

Melindea is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.^[1] It is known from Africa.

Species

• Melindea abyssinica Lefèvre, 1884
• Melindea brunnea (Jacoby, 1901)
• Melindea denticrus (Burgeon, 1941)
• Melindea ferruginipes (Weise, 1924)^[2]
• Melindea limbata (Pic, 1923)
• Melindea nigripes (Bryant, 1954)^[3]
• Melindea nigrita (Jacoby, 1901)
• Melindea nigritarsis (Bryant, 1954)^[3]
• Melindea opaca (Weise, 1915)
• Melindea pubescens (Bryant, 1941)^[4]
• Melindea robusta (Pic, 1923)
• Melindea rufescens (Pic, 1950)
• Melindea semifulva (Bryant, 1954)^[3]
• Melindea virescens (Lefèvre, 1885)^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Melindea. African Eumolpinae site. 23 July 2018.
2. Weise. J.. 1924. Zoological Results of the Swedish Expedition to Central Africa 1921. Insecta. 7. Chrysomelidae und Coccinellidae. Arkiv för Zoologi. 16. 22. 1–30.
3. Bryant. G. E.. 1954. New species of Chrysomelidae (Eumolpinae and Halticinae, Coleoptera) from Kenya colony forwarded by the Nairobi Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 12. 7. 77. 353–361. 10.1080/00222935408651739 .
4. Bryant. G. E.. 1941. New species of African Chrysomelidae (Col.). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B, Taxonomy. 10. 11. 209–214. 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1941.tb00681.x.
5. Lefèvre. É.. 1885. Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. 2. 11. 16. 1–172.
6. Zoia. S.. 2019. Nomenclature changes in African Eumolpinae with reference to type specimens preserved in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). . Nouvelle Série. 55. 1. 61–86. 10.1080/00379271.2018.1556119. 155689938.